“الدين معاملة”: Do Unto Others
We hear the above term a lot, and some suspect that it is derives from the Hadith of the Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him). However, most are confused as to its origins, given that it appears in...
Author: Feature Writer
This article was authored by a GlobalComment Feature Writer. To contribute an article, please see the guidelines here.
Please note that due to a data transfer error, some bylines from feature articles were inadvertently stripped in early 2016. We are trying to restore them, but if you were one of those affected, please email editor at globalcomment dot com so we can rectify the situation!
Review: Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival, 24th-26th August, Bramham Park. The waiting was over, and things couldn’t have been better. The sun was making a rare appearance, bags are packed, tickets in hand and excitement...
Genre trouble: Re-reading Stella Gibbon’s Starlight
Stella Gibbons is best known for 1932’s Cold Comfort Farm, a sublimely comic novel that satirised the grim, rural works of writers like Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith. Cold Comfort Farm is...
Why do some feminist spaces tolerate male abusers?
What role, if any, should men with a history of abuse of women have in feminism? This question is at the heart of ongoing debates in the feminist blogosphere over Hugo Schwyzer, a professor of gender...
Islamophobia in China: Violence Breaks Out in Xinjiang
Western China is far from the happiest place in which to be Muslim right now. At the end of December, police killed seven people in Xinjiang, an area traditionally dominated by the Uighur Muslim...
An Aussie victory for transgender people, but misconceptions continue
In an important victory for transgender and intersex activists, Australian passports will now be issued in three sexes - male, female, and an indeterminate X. The Australian passport office...
Bridging the digital divide? Comcast and media consolidation
The seemingly unending anxiety over the digital divide has made it’s way into the press again the past few weeks. This anxiety speaks to a very real emergent source of injustice in the US, with...
What Argentina’s economic crisis could teach the West
In 2001, Argentina was in the middle of a very serious social and economic turmoil. The population had seen their pensions taken away or reduced to amounts that could barely cover basic living...
“We are all Canucks”: The Vancouver hockey riot, Canada Post labour dispute and violence
It’s a truism, perhaps, to claim that sport functions as a release valve for social and economic pressures—but the Vancouver street riots that followed the conclusion of the Stanley Cup finals,...
Obama vs. Netanyahu: What does it mean?
On 18 May 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to to publicly encourage a Palestinian/Israeli accord based on the 1967 borders. Not only that, but he did so in...